The Age of the Peshitta

[Paul Younan]

You need to provide examples, Caruso. Not just words.

Slight differences in dialect shouldn't make someone get all up in arms. I'm sure an Assyrian could understand a Galilean means when he says "d'b'smaya" instead of "d'b'shmaya". It's a very minute, albeit noticeable, difference in dialect.

lol. My brother in law says "besha" for home in his Tyari dialect, instead of "betha" like we do in the Tkhuma dialect. It is well known that the letters Taw and Sheen are sometimes interchangeable in modern Neo Aramaic.

This in no way prevents communication between speakers and writers of different dialects who spend a mere five minutes with each other.

This is exactly what I'm referring to when saying they make mountains out of mole hills.

And Akhi Steve, no I do not agree with you that it warrants a different classification.

Today's dialects in the Ashiret tribes are called Neo Aramaic, in spite of the overwhelming evidence that they descend from what you call "Syriac."

So let's see. My ancestors in the Assyrian empire spoke Imperial Aramaic. Then they spoke, according to your classification, "Syriac", and today we speak Neo Aramaic. (I've condensed the timeline a bit)

Got it. Not random at all, and totally makes sense to call the middle part by a totally different term. Surely that's warranted. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->

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